Wagon-body



(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFT E.

FELIX BURGESS, OF DAELINGTON, WISCONSIN.

WAGON-BODY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,528, dated August 28, 1888.

Application filed February 17, 1888. Serial No. 264,346. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX BURGESS, of Darlington, in the county of Lafayette and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Wagon-Body, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved wagonbody specially adapted for use with lumberwagons and vehicles of that nature, and has for its object to provide a body which may be quickly and expeditiously removed and placed upon the wagon byasingle person,and-wherein the said body maybe knocked down or built up in any small barn or wagon-shed.

The invention consists in providing a sectioual wagon-body, and in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the body. Fig.

2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is an end view, and Fig. 4 is an inverted plan.

In carrying out the invention, A represents the bolsters, B the bolster-standards, and O the reach, of an ordinary lgmber-wagon.

The body D consists of a bottom, D, in two sections, two sides, D, each in a single piece, and the front and rear end-boards, D and D.

The bottom boards are provided with spaced transverse bars (1, adapted to receive between them the bolsters, and with end and interme diate connecting'bars, d and d". The con tiguous edges of the bottom boards are respectively tongued and grooved, and the in ner ends of the approaching connecting-bars are projected over the edges of the boards D, and provided upon opposite sides witha preferably square rabbet, whereby when the bot tom boards are brought together the approach ing connecting-bars will interlock and form a lap-joint, d, as illustrated in Fig. at. In order that the bottom thus united will. not buckle outward, and also enable one to take each half separately from the frame, pivoted buttons E are provided, preferably at each alternate lap- On taking the wagon apart the buttons E are turned so as to be clear of the joint, thus allowing each half to be raised separately out of the stand ards B and taken apart.

The sides D, as heretofore stated, are made in one piece each, and are provided upon their outer face with perpendicular brace-bars E, the lower extremities of which, projecting below the base of the sides, are provided with an integral apertured arm, 6, extending inward, adapted to engage the under face of the various connecting-bars d and d.

I propose attaching to the sides an angular brace bar to engage each connecting -.bar. When the sides are placed in position, they rest upon the bottom, being held perpendicularly by the bolsterstandards, and also by the front and end boards, which are slid in ways 0 formed upon the inner faces of the side boards at or near their extremities, as shown in Fig. 2.

In order to bind the sides and bottom secnrely together, I introduce a set-screw, h, into the arm 6 of the brace-bars, and turn the said screws to a bearing against the bottom, or introduce them into a suitable threaded aperture, as in practice'will be found most desirable.

It will be observed by this construction that a body may, even in close quarters, be readily built up or knocked down with ease by a single person. 7 T

Having thus described myinvention,whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a wagon-body, the combination, with bottom boards, of interlocking transverse connecting-bars secured to the under side of the bottom and provided with pivoted buttons, substantially as and for the pn rpose described.

2. In a wagon-body, the combination, with bottom boards having their contiguous edges to the bottom, substantially as and for the pur pose specified. h

3. In a wagon-body, the combination, with with the bottom, substantially as described, whereby when said buttons are placed at right angles to the length of connecting-bars each half of the body composed of the posts above specified may be raised from the framing, in the manner hereinbefore described.

FELIX BURGESS.

\Vitnesses:

P. H. CoNLEY, J. K. P. HELM. 

